Garment



RANKl GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-17,19.

Patented JNVENTOR 47:55:91,

W g? m ATTORNEY.

W I TNESS:

ANNA L. RANKIN, 0F PEORIA, ILLIhTOI S.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1920.

Application filed March 17, 1919. SeriaI NQ. 283,027.

To all "whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANNA L. RANKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria. and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garment for infants, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a combined shirt, bandage and skirt in the one garment.

Another object of the invention is to make the garment capable of being adjusted to fit infants of difierent sizes, or to be adjusted to accommodate the growing child.

The invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a view showing the garment opened.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the bandages closed and the garment open.

As shown in these views, the garment comprises a shirt 1, provided with the sleeves and made to fit the upper part of the body; the skirt 52 forming an extension of the shirt and flaring outwardly from the waistline, and the bandage 3 having its upper edge secured to the inner side of the. garment at the ninction of the skirt with the shirt. The front of the shirt and skirt are open with the exception of the lower part of the skirt, which has its edges sewn together for an appreciable distance from the bottom thereof. The bandage is also open in the front and this bandage is made of considerable length so as to provide overlapping ends, which are adapted to be secured together at the front of the garment,

so that said bandage may be adjusted to fit different sizes of infants. As will be seen,

the front part of the bandage is free of the garment, so as to permit the garment to be opened and the bandage secured in position around. the infant, while the garment is open. The rear of the bandage is cut away at its bottom part, asat 4, so that the same will not be soiled. Any desired means may be provided for connecting the two ends of the bandage to the rest ofthe bandage,.as

it will be seen that each end must be con- I prefer to make the garment of knitted material and the knitting is to be slightly tighter at the bottom of the shirt where the band begins and (decidedly tighter at the bottom of the band. I prefer to use either tape or safety pins forholding the garment closed. i I

WVhat I claim is A garment for infants comprising a shirt and a skirt forming a continuation of the shirt, said shirt and the upper part of the.

skirt being opened in'the front, a bandage of greater diameter than the garment and having its upper edge secured to the inner part of the shirt at a point adjacent the vconnection of said shirt with the skirt, said bandage opening in front and having overlapping ends, said ends being freeof the shirt and the lower rear part of said band age being cut away to make the rear part of less width than the front part and means for connecting the ends of the bandage to the other parts thereof whereby the diameter of the bandage maybe adjusted.

.511 testimony whereof I aflix my signatare.

ANNA L. RANKIN. 

